Through the first leg of the financial crisis, the yen was rising as traders deleveraged direct or indirect carry trades through a need for cash, natural repatriation and frequently forced liquidations.

They find that, in the aggregate, promised payments to creditors exceed liquidation values and conclude that the Japanese bankruptcy system can create value compared to a system of forced liquidations.

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